I think any line swivel is of little value anyway because they won't spin with any tension on the lines. The lines will twist before the swivel moves, no matter how nice the swivel. Better to have it on the loop so you can deal directly with the inevitable twists.

On my 3 kites, it takes two hands to turn the swivels. Sometimes they freeze tight.I started rinsing off the salt and sand, but it was too late to save them.Rust is dripping out from the China stainless.

Back in 2012, I contacted SS Customer Service.They told me swivels cost $100,but they would give me a "special deal" at their cost of $50.No thanks, I think the truth is more like $14.

So here we have a major brand, who won't stand behind a defective part.And I just lost a buyer for my used kite, because of it.

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Same happened to mine. I tried rubbing a little oil on it to maybe reduce the rate of decay .... but I doubt it'll make any difference.

So here we have a major brand, who won't stand behind a defective part.And I just lost a buyer for my used kite, because of it....

I had the slingshot spreader bar with releasable hook ; and Loved ituntili lost my 15M Ozone sport into a lamp-post, because it Broke. YES, theleash was attached to the part that broke off.

There was a rusty looking residue surrounding the cracked aria.

And there STILL putting out equipment, that's made with Cheap materials ? Glad istopped buying there stuff about 8 years ago !!! HOW do they Stay in business ??

321 kiteboarding, out of Cocoa Beach Florida, sponsored me with my Dynabar V-7 with sliding hook ; it appears to be made from some very High-quality materials. Will i ever purchase another one , or recommend it to a friend (?)YES !!

I think any line swivel is of little value anyway because they won't spin with any tension on the lines. The lines will twist before the swivel moves, no matter how nice the swivel. Better to have it on the loop so you can deal directly with the inevitable twists.

Actually on my bar (Switch), it just does not work when there is no tension on the lines.But if you get tension on the lines again, the swivel will automatically spin to untangle one twist and sometimes with even twists.

But the switch bar has both, swivel on the frontlines and one at the loop to do it by hand.So its a nice extra.

If you get one (or two) spin, it twists automatically, if you get more, you do some by hand.

I guess the average person has no idea how bad salt and sand are. You can rinse all you want but you will never get all the sand and salt out. Try WD40 to break it free. In an extreme case ( I don't recommend it because I don't know how they are made ) try boiling it in water. This might completely ruin the swivel though.

I work in a chemical plant and part of a lot of our byproducts are salts. They destroy our pumps and increase corrosion. We are not talking about cheap stainless either. It's all so about $5000 a pump seal every time one goes out and those are the cheap ones.

I think any line swivel is of little value anyway because they won't spin with any tension on the lines. The lines will twist before the swivel moves, no matter how nice the swivel. Better to have it on the loop so you can deal directly with the inevitable twists.

Yep!!!

Nope!!! My reasoning is that I do a lot more on one side and not on the other.

Trust me the LF swivel does work and a prof is 3hrs today with 40km in total and enormous number of loops to the right side only. Yep, my stronger side and the shore position. For sure, no tension no spin. It will untwist itself under tension. Try it...

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